Revisited Kata: Using Midje's defrecord-openly to mock a protocol in Ohce

Several weeks ago I did the Ohce kata in Clojure using outside-in TDD with Midje (as I explained in a previous post).

In that post I said that I hadn't used Midje's defrecord-openly and provided macros and had instead decided to write my own code to capture the arguments with which the functions of the Notifier protocol implementation were being called because:

... I didn't like having to use defrecord-openly in production code.

Well, I was wrong!

It turns out that it is not necessary at all to use defrecord-openly in your production code in order to mock a protocol.

I understood it thanks to this answer in Stak Overflow: Mocking Clojure protocols.

The only thing I needed to do was to use defrecord-openly to create a fake implementation of the Notifier protocol inside the test code like this:

and then write the tests against this unimplemented fake.

This are the new Ohce tests:

As you can see it's very easy to use Midje's defrecord-openly to mock protocols.

I just misunderstood Midje's documentation the first time I tried to do it...